Rom
\ʁɔm\
The verdict
“Rom” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #11,848) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,848
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Membre du peuple des Roms.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rom · Rom · French
Rom · rank #11,848 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,848
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Roberto
Nearest frequency peer: Roberto (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « Rom »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- rideaux
rideaux
88,156 corpus weight
- Roberto
Roberto
88,154 corpus weight
- Rom
Rom
88,153 corpus weight
- réalisateurs
réalisateurs
88,152 corpus weight
- sanguin
sanguin
88,151 corpus weight
- scores
scores
88,150 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Rom » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rom |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔm\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #11,848 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Rom »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Rom is neighbouring look-alikes ("RT", "RP", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ʁɔm\. Frequency #11,848 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Membre du peuple des Roms.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Rom in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RT", "RP", "ru", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Rom, spelled R-O-M.
Definition
- 1Membre du peuple des Roms.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Rom appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On répandit l’idée que les Roms n’étaient qu’un ramassis de feignants dont la feignantise détraquait le bon fonctionnement du monde libre. Pour faire bonne mesure, on ajouta qu’ils faisaient n’importe où, qu’ils mangeaient de la chair de hérisson, berk!, qu’ils se livraient à des danses lascives […]
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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